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Period: 1800 BCE to 800
The Maya
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Period: 1200 BCE to 600 BCE
The Olmecs
The earliest known Mesoamerican civilization -
1095
Pope Urban calls for Crusades in the Holy Land
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1200
Europe is a farming economy
Feudalism let people get their food by farming -
Period: 1200 to 1521
Aztec
Formed by an alliance of three different peoples -
1271
Marco Polo travels to the East
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1289
Crusades end
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1293
Polos journey home
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1298
Polo imprisoned and writes his book
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Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
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Period: 1400 to 1532
Inca
Wealthy and sophisticated empire in South America -
1415
The Portuguese captured the Fortress of Ceuta
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1419
Portugal discovered Madeira Islands
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1427
Portugal discovered Azores Islands
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1434
Prince Henry's ships made a successful return voyage
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1440
John Gutenburg invented the printing press
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1469
Marriage of Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabel of Castile
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1488
Barolomeau Dias made it around the tip of Africa, and reached the Eastern coast of Africa
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Oct 12, 1492
Muslims were expelled from Spain
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1519
Cortes invades the Aztec
Hernan Cortes formed alliances to defeat the much larger Aztec Empire -
1529
Pizarro invades the Inca
The Inca were weakened by civil war and disease when Pizarro attacked -
1532
The Inca fall under Pizarro
Pizarro traps and captures Inca Emperor Atahualpa -
Thomas Hobbes writes The Leviathan
Writes that the king has absolute power to rule over people in exchange for peace and security -
John Locke writes The Second Treatise on Government
States that all men are created equal by God -
The United States declares Independence
The American colonists declared independence from the British and created a new country -
France writes the Declaration of the Rights of Man
The French wrote this document for human civil rights, which led to the French Revolution -
Haiti gained independence
Haitian independence proclaimed Two months after his defeat of Napoleon Bonaparte’s colonial forces, Jean-Jacques Dessalines proclaims the independence of Saint-Domingue, renaming it Haiti after its original Arawak name. In 1791, a slave revolt erupted on the French colony , and Toussaint-Louverture, a former slave, took control of the rebels. -
Bolivar and his soldiers begin Venezuela’s fight for independence
The Venezuelan War of Independence (1810–1823) was one of the Spanish American wars of independence of the early nineteenth century, when independence movements in Latin America fought against rule by the Spanish Empire , emboldened by Spain's troubles in the Napoleonic Wars . -
Bolivar’s Gran Columbia gains its independence
In 1819, December 17, the Republic of Colombia, known as Gran Colombia was proclaimed that Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador were included in it. At the same time, Colombia gained its independence from Spain and Simon Bolivar became the first president of Colombia. -
Jose de San Martin frees Peru from Spain
José Francisco de San Martín (February 25, 1778–August 17, 1850) was an Argentine general and governor who led his nation during the wars of Independence from Spain. He is counted among the founding fathers of Argentina and also led the liberations of Chile and Peru. -
Mexico gains independence
A progressive priest named Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla became the father of Mexican independence with a historic proclamation urging his fellow Mexicans to take up arms against the Spanish government.
